Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

Alex Gibney Interview CASINO JACK AND THE UNITED STATES OF MONEY

by Sheila Roberts    Posted: May 3rd, 2010 at 5:20 pm

Alex Gibney has made some of the most entertaining and provocative non-fiction films of our times. He turned the story of a massive corporate disaster into a riveting drama of greed, arrogance and betrayal in the acclaimed Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. Next he unraveled the mystery of a young Afghani taxi driver’s disappearance into a gripping, eye-opening thriller in the Academy Award winning Taxi To The Dark Side.

Now, in Casino Jack and The United States of Money, Gibney turns his camera on a profoundly American story about high ideals, irresistible temptations, brazen ambition and outlandish behavior as he probes the secret history of the man many have called “the king of corruption” – super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff.  More after the jump:

Columbia Does Business with ENRON

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: September 21st, 2009 at 10:37 pm

The collapse and bald-faced fraud of Enron almost seems quaint today after all our banks took hundreds of billions of our dollars under both Republican and Democratic White House administrations.  But even though Enron now looks small-time, that doesn’t mean it lacks for outsized personalities and corporate intrigue.  Already brought to the screen back in 2005 with the Oscar-nominated documentary, “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room”, Columbia wants to bring the story back with an adaptation of Lucy Prebble’s hit play, “Enron”.  Hit the jump to long for the good old days of corporate graft.

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